Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions (mdwPress) - Softcover

Annuß, Evelyn

 
9783837674750: Dirty Dragging: Performative Transpositions (mdwPress)

Inhaltsangabe

In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annuß reformulates queer theorizations of drag, exploring the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. Taking up the ambivalence of “dirty” performance modes spanning drag and carnival to propaganda, she extends readings of gender bending by incorporating perspectives on blackface and “racialized drag.” She thereby explores violent, locally specific mobilizations of the transgressive along with the ways in which queer and creolized forms of performance intertwine to oppose identitarian boundaries. Given the current slide into right-wing authoritarianism, the book thus gestures toward the potential joy of collectively making societal conditions dance.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Evelyn Annuß, Professorin für Gender Studies, leitet das International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Sie arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von Ästhetik, Performativitätstheorien und der Kritik der Politik. Als Theater- und Literaturwissenschaftlerin beschäftigt sie sich u.a. mit politischen Spektakeln, ihrer Historizität und Medialität im Kontext von NS, Kolonialrassismen und (Re-)Faschisierung.

Rezensionen

»Evelyn Annuß has written a definitive, detailed, multi-sited, transnational history of drag. This book offers a sinuous history of performance, race, collective world-making and unmaking and it uses various national archives to resist any simple equation between drag and subversion. ›Dirty Dragging‹ offers startlingly new readings of drag performance and is an instant classic!« ― Jack Halberstam, Columbia University New York City

»›Dirty Dragging‹ is a must-read: a highly productive and politically important intervention in queer and gender studies, cultural and theatre studies, and above all in performance studies. Dirty Dragging has the potential to shape these disciplines in exemplary ways, because it not only breaks open binary and dualistic perspectives. By focusing on processes of creolization, drag, gender, racialization, and class can be understood as interconnected in new ways.« ― Isabell Lorey, KHM Köln

»Evelyn Annuß thinks across history, geography, and forms of political practice to offer a capacious conception of dragging. The non-linear weft of this work complicates notions of genealogy, origins, and indigeneity.« ― Zimitri Erasmus, Wits University Johannesburg

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